I am a Luciel Lortel Award-winning New York actor who used to be a television star in Russia. But let’s go back a little. 

I moved to Moscow when I was 20, despite being raised in Colorado by true American Rugged Individualists. I mean, it was really all blue jeans, guns and howdy partners for me until my early adulthood. But I was fascinated with the theatre in Russia. The first time I was stateside after moving my life there, I remember my father asking me how those red commie bastards were doing. He was joking, of course. A little over ten years later, and I was watching my acting dreams come true half-way around the globe in a language I had never known.

That journey lasted 15 years. I did a solo performance that ran for 5 years at the Meyerhold Theatre Centre. I was on hit TV shows. I had a theatre company and music projects and acting courses and awards. I made plays and movies across Armenia, Uzbekistan, Cyprus, Germany, Morocco, Poland, Nepal, and Qatar. And then one day it happened. I realized I had become someone else, culturally. By following my passion and linking that to my own message, I found I was no longer that boy from Colorado. I was also a man from Moscow. I had changed.

When I first arrived in Russia I didn't have any money, and I didn’t know the language. So I taught myself Russian in the theatre and made a living using acting skills for all things English-language. I taught communication seminars, translated poetry, gave acting lessons, did dialect coaching and copy writing and voiceovers and creative directing. Without knowing it, I had committed to a lifetime of using my craft to help people be better speakers. To change, like I did.

That is what I help people do. Change. And there are so many ways to do it. I have twenty years of experience with actors, directors, producers, musicians, scientists, journalists, attorneys,  managers, and business leaders who want to find their voice. That has helped me develop a methodology for unleashing layers of expression that that are honest and true. 

I know what a strange, complicated and winding road it is to speak from your heart in another dialect.